Bingo draft zero is finished at last. And two whole hours to go before the midnight deadline. Everyone involved in this challenge made it through with a finished script, and three new screenplays are birthed screaming and bloody into the world. To be sure, mine doesn’t make much sense, it all goes a bit Scooby-Doo […]

If you’re not aware of it already (and if not, why not?) the most eagerly anticipated film of 2006 is Snakes on a Plane. Thanks to the title (That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title – Samuel L Jackson) there’s an Internet buzz about this that we haven’t seen since […]

Arthur Curry takes a meeting. Genius.

I’m not participating in the 14 day screenwriting challenge. This is mostly because I don’t think it’s do-able. (At least, not for people who haven’t been training for months in high-altitude screenwriting training camps in the mountains.) 90 pages over 14 days is about 6.5 pages a day. That’s a hard slog for a professional […]

I always liked to think of myself as a fairly tolerant man, but I suppose that it had to happen eventually. I have found my personal squick line. I have met and enjoyed the company of many people who happily describe themselves as being furry. If they enjoy the adventures of, or the lifestyles of, […]

Let’s take a moment to look at Star Trek’s holodeck. We know that it is capable of creating realistic facsimiles of an environment through the use of force-fields and matter conversion systems, such as are used in the replicator units. A replicator can make any one of a number of foodstuffs, materialising it from raw […]

The gloves are off in this comments thread over at The Artful Writer as various A-listers debate what a Writers’ Guild should do for its membership. Educational.

Ah, Eurovision time again. A little history: Back in 1954, a consortium of Television Companies in Europe, the European Broadcasting Union, began to share their programmes across a Europe-wide network. At first by landline, later by satellite. This network was named Eurovision. As well as sharing plays, documentaries, and sports programmes across the network, the […]

Steven Moffat is one of the greatest TV writers in the world. Coupling is probably the show he’s best known for. It lasted four series in the UK. He’s also written for Doctor Who. As well as being a bit of a fan. So when someone asked him on the Outpost Gallifrey message board what […]